Lake of the Woods Gun Club

This is a picture of Club member Gord Wald’s 5 shot group that he shot at 100 yards on the morning of Saturday August 15^th at the Manitoba Provincial Benchrest Championships held in Selkirk Manitoba.

In Bench Rest vernacular, any 5 shot group shot at 100 yards measuring less than .100” center to center of the two bullet holes furthest apart is referred to as a “screamer”.

The 5 shot group need only land within the record box and does not need to be in the center as in Score shooting.

In case you think it’s a scam, there is a moving backer system behind the target which moves a blank sheet of paper at a rate of one inch per minute to verify that 5 shots were indeed fired on the target in the 7 minute time limit.

It looks like you could fire 1 shot on the target and the other 4 into the backstop and claim it was a screamer. But, the Official Scorer checks every target backer paper to verify there are 5 bullet holes, and if there’s not, the shooter is assessed a one inch penalty for each shot not on paper. A one inch penalty is impossible to recover from and will put the competitor to the bottom of ranking for the weekend.

Screamers are a little more common than a hole in one in golf. The current Selkirk Range Record for smallest 100 yard 5 shot group is a .048” shot by Murray Benson of Selkirk on August 18^th 2012.

The current Canadian record for smallest 100 yard 5 shot group is .032 shot by Al Mirdoch October 9^th, 1982. Gord’s target is signed and dated by the Match Director and will be framed with the backing paper verifying 5 bullets passed through one hole at 100 yards.

Congratulations Gord, well done.

Submitted by Dwayne Cyr

The Pistol range will be closed Tuesday August 11^th and Wednesday August 12^th.

Also stay tuned for a possible closure for the week of 17^th to 22^nd to raise the backstop on the Pistol range.

June 17^th our Club was inspected by Chief Inspector Peter Niedermaier, Jeff Barnes and Richard Gray. Generally we came through the inspection in good shape although there are some backstop and side berm issues that will be corrected shortly.

Something new for 2015 is that all Clubs in Ontario are now required to have gunshot trauma kits. The inspectors were very impressed that we were the only club in Ontario to already have one on each range since 2012

Special well deserved thank you to the crew of volunteers who groomed the Club property before the inspection. Thanks to Eric Liznick, Colleen Coker, Al Carlson Jacques Choquette, the Division Chairmen and others. And thank you to the general members who show pride in our facility and clean up after themselves.

The Club received compliments on the overall well maintained clean condition and neat appearance.

Dwayne Cyr

Sunday May 31^st seventeen shooters gathered at the Jacques Choquette Rifle Range in Kenora Ontario for some friendly competition. The cool morning temperature made it necessary to fire many shots on the sighter target to warm up the barrels enough to shoot straight. The wind was also a factor as the wind speed and constant change of direction made it difficult to keep your shots anywhere near the 10 ring. Despite the challenging conditions, some shooters managed to perform well with Sporter Class scores shot by juniors that were comparable to, or within reach of the Unlimited Class.

Semi Auto Class

1^st Ken Chambers 702 16X  Ruger 1022

2^nd Bill Gabryluk    692  9X   Ruger 1022

Sporter Class

1^st Donovan Jack  736 11X   Savage

2^nd Katelyn Jack    725 18X   Savage

3^rd Gavin Carlson  714 13X   CZ

Unlimited Class

1^st Phil Nick 747 33X  Anschutz

2^nd Rod Jack 742 29X Winchester M52

3^rd Burt Bastien 728  13X Cooper

Thanks to the volunteers and shooters who came out to support the Club.

Dwayne Cyr